Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |
| 2 | But I started off wood , nearly , nearly in every instance . |
| 3 | ‘ I stay off school to avoid getting hurt — there 's been some bad fights here . ’ |
| 4 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 5 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 6 | This is a major cause of physical handicap , but the insertion of valves which drain off fluid to the heart have reduced the risk of brain damage . |
| 7 | He wrote to the Lord Treasurer Rochester begging for appointment to Exeter in preference to Bristol , as the bishopric of Exeter yielded better stipends with which to pay off family debts . |
| 8 | Authors at the conference , in social and business sessions include Shirley Hughes and Aidan Chambers , who round off conference at the Random House Breakfast on Wednesday , Anthony Sampson , Terence Blacker and Terry Pratchett , the guest of honour at the annual dinner dance . |
| 9 | When you buff off surface dead-skin cells , your skin often looks cleaner and healthier — probably because of blood rushing to the surface . |
| 10 | ‘ Here , you clear off home , ’ said Dotty forthrightly . |
| 11 | Check all zips and drawstrings are running smoothly before you set off camping . |
| 12 | — " In the meantime , you go off home . " |
| 13 | Not many mammals have intercourse during pregnancy , and you may find you go off sex . |
| 14 | If you do well , some lenders will allow you to pay off part of the loan before the end of the original term — a huge bonus . |
| 15 | That 's the most exciting part , when you take off overpaint and discover something underneath . |
| 16 | ‘ Finding something you did n't know was there , when you take off overpaint , that 's the best . |
| 17 | Also , remember to stretch when you come off court as well . |
| 18 | Also , remember to stretch when you come off court as well . |
| 19 | Relaxation is good for the immune system — and will help you fight off illness . |
| 20 | We let off steam in graffiti , vandalism and football hooliganism . |
| 21 | Queer how it gets us , all women and no men , the way we let off steam , like being back at school again , lifting up people 's skirts in the cloakroom . |
| 22 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ said Captain Dance when he returned , ‘ at least we finished off Pew . ’ |
| 24 | We stray off course , to talk about glamour . |
| 25 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 26 | In the pilot we go off mine-detecting on the Isle of Wight and discover some lizards . ’ |
| 27 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 28 | It may be a Victorian attitude , but we live off income , not capital . |
| 29 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
| 30 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |